The first trailer for Ice Age: Boiling Point arrived this week, and John Leguizamo is back in the pack. The new film is set for Feb. 4, 2027, and it brings back the core voice ensemble that helped turn the prehistoric comedy into a box-office giant.

Leguizamo is returning alongside Ray Romano, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah and Simon Pegg, a lineup that signals the franchise is leaning hard on the characters that made it a global hit. For fans who have been waiting to see who would return, the trailer answers that in one shot: the originals are back.

That return matters because Ice Age: Boiling Point is being positioned as the first Ice Age movie to exist under Disney’s watch. The franchise began in March 2002 with a Blue Sky Studios production released by 20th Century Fox, and the first film went on to gross $383 million worldwide on a $59 million budget. By the time Ice Age: Continental Drift landed in 2012, the series had become a steady machine, and the five theatrical films have since totaled $3.2 billion worldwide.

The new trailer also lands after a rough patch for the property. Disney acquired Blue Sky as part of its larger Fox purchase and shuttered the studio in April 2021, then put out The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild in January 2022 as a Disney+ exclusive spin-off without the core voice cast. That left the franchise with a gap between the old era and whatever came next, and this film is the first real sign that Disney is trying to rebuild that original identity rather than replace it.

What remains unclear is the exact shape of Leguizamo’s role this time, even as his return confirms the studio is not treating the character roster lightly. For now, the important point is simpler: the first trailer has restored the voices that defined Ice Age, and the next major marker for the series is already on the calendar for Feb. 4, 2027.